Re: Newbie question -- dereferencing access

[Tim Rowe <spamtrap@tgrowe.plus.net>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> On Mar 11, 9:26 pm, Tim Rowe <spamt...@tgrowe.plus.net> wrote:
>> If I have an access variable, for example:
>>      s: access string := new String'("Foo");
>> is there an easy way to assign from s to a string variable? Obviously I
>> can't assign it directly, because access string is not string, so how do
>> I convert? Everything I read says that dereferences happen
>> automatically, but in this situation!
> 
>    Copy_Of_S : String := s.all;
> 
> This also works when passing parameters, e.g.
> 
>    procedure P (Str : in String) is null;
> begin
>    P (s.all);


Perfect! Thanks.

Can you (or anyone else) suggest a good book or online tutorial for an 
existing programmer, wanting to add Ada to his language portfolio? I 
have John Barnes "Programming in Ada 95", but I don't find his 
explanations very clear (and I couldn't find the answer to the question 
above), so if there's something better out there it might be worth me 
getting it.